Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FALSE HOPE, by HORACE MEYER KALLEN


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First Line: Methought I saw the heavy eyelids rise
Last Line: Horace m. Kallen.
Subject(s): Jews; Zionism; Judaism


METHOUGHT I saw the heavy eyelids rise,
The Midased face shine clear of its gilt dream
The lightning gaze that should beseem
The answerer; the flash shall fire the skies
With beauty of a mighty heart that flies
Strong with its hope and in its strength supreme
With its own life a people's life redeem,
Ordained and sealed unto this enterprise.

This great thing was: dear God! what doth enhance
The swinish sleep, the dream, the easihead!
What turns him from the master—Circumstance
To slumber and a trough of unearned bread!
O sluggard, spendthrift of the fateful Chance!
O shameless shame of our heroic dead.

HORACE M. KALLEN.





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